Approach Quote by Anton Chekhov

“You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving the problem…

— Anton Chekhov

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem…

— Anton Chekhov

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

— Anton Chekhov

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

— Ezra Koenig

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

— Joseph Conrad

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however…

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How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by…

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The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason…

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Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

— Robert Henri

The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while…

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